How do we know that's not relevant?
Whether it's relevant to timeline placement or not is a different question than what you were stating. You specifically said that Ganon/dorf has no relevance to the plot, not in general.
The Triumph Forks have absolutely no relevance to the plot. Now if you are talking in terms of timeline placement then yes, the Triumph Forks being mentioned could be relevant, but so could the mentioning (or lack there of) of Ganon/dorf.
They're actually in the game though. Ganon is not.
I don't recall them being relevant to the plot, however, and the plot is what you were discussing.
Ganondorf wasn't in the game. Making him a figurine is pointless.
Like I stated earlier, it doesn't HAVE to be a figurine. They could have mentioned him multiple ways. They could have had a book about him in the library, they could have had Vaati mention something like "I will succeed where the great king of the dark realm failed" or something along those lines. It would have taken a nanosecond to have his name mentioned somewhere or have his existence hinted at and relevance to the plot wouldn't have mattered, but they didn't mention him anywhere. Do you really believe that they accidentally didn't have him mentioned anywhere? There is no way that when creating a Zelda game Ganon/dorf would not cross the creators mind.
Now this is what you're suggesting happened.
-"Should we mention Ganon/dorf anywhere?"
-"No, he's not relevant to the plot."
-"Yeah, but we have a tiny mentioning of the Triumph Forks. We could just put a little tid bit somewhere about him."
-"No, the Triumph Forks are OK to add but the greatest villain in the series doesn't deserve recognition."
-"Yeah, but if we want people to believe that this game is not first in the timeline it would make sense to make his past existence obvious."
-"No, it doesn't matter."
This outcome seems more likely to me.
-"Should we mention Ganon/dorf anywhere?"
-"No, this game takes place before his existence."
Because in the end of the game Vaati absorbs the vast majority of it out of Princess Zelda and then dies? That tends to...ya know...do a number on it's importance to the series.
Except he doesn't die....(FS, FSA) Why didn't he go after the rest of the light force?
Not to mention, "force" is found in other games of the series.
But not Light Force, and that is the specific thing sought after in this game and in no other game. You're suggesting that all force is the same.
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